"I combed the dogs. You have to comb 2 dogs and pull the fur out of the comb. Then, you have to roll it together, then you roll, roll, roll, till it is in the shape of a snake. But if you have two, they may get stuck together. You can touch them and think about dogs. They feel nice and soft like a dog." (A few days ago, Dilara had a pile of tufts of dog hair she had twisted together. Someone said they looked like little dreadlocks. They were made from hair from the brown dog and from the black dog. She said maybe we could sell them for people who don't have dogs, but want to touch them and pretend that they are petting a dog. --Lydia
Last night, for the first time in several months, if not a year, we slept in the full-sized bed in the front room rather than in the twin sized bunk bed. A twin sized bed is just too small for both of us, plus the bunk bed mattress is not comfortable for me at all. I used to wonder why kids could seem to sleep anywhere, but now I wonder if older, heavier people mash down into mattresses and feel the "lumps" more than kids a quarter of their weight.
This morning Dilara woke up and told me about how she remembered waking up and reading the alphabet "in her brain." I have had a alphabet "train" hung on the wall just below the ceiling since she was a baby..You would think she would know which was a "j" curves by now. She also told me how she used to see lights stopping and moving on the wall and she thought they were ghosts. I asked her why she wasn't afraid, and she said, "I was just imagining they were ghosts. She knew they were really lights coming from the headlights of cars at the intersection outside our house. I have 2 black construction paper birds that came in a set of assorted cut-outs and I taped them facing each other above my door. She said she always imagined they were singing together. Lydia |
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